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provided, that when any person or persons composing such band or bands
as aforesaid shall be arrested as provided in this sub-title, the constable
or sheriff making such arrest or arrests shall, upon request of such person
or persons so arrested, take him or them before the clerk of the circuit
court for said county, and if the person or persons so arrested, or any
other person, shall at any time or within five days thereafter take out such
license as provided in section 141 of this sub-title for the band of which
the person or persons so arrested are members, then the constable or sheriff,
as the case may be, upon the production to him of a written notice signed
by the said clerk that a license has been issued for the band of which the
person or persons in his custody are members, and the payment to him of
all costs and expenses of the arrest or arrests or the seizure of the property,
as aforesaid, and the further sum of ten dollars for each and every person
so arrested and in his custody, shall release such person or persons, and
shall pay over the amount or amounts so collected, after deducting all costs,
as aforesaid, as the same would be paid were it a fine imposed by the
circuit court.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 170. 1912, sec. 132. 1904, sec. 130. 1904, ch. 485, sec. 4.

144. It shall not be necessary for a conviction for violations of any of
the provisions of this sub-title for the State to prove that any person or
persons charged with any such violation has or have no permanent place
of abode in this state, but the burden of proving that such person or persons
have a permanent place of abode in this State shall be upon the traverser;
provided, however, that these provisions shall not apply to Allegany, Bal-
timore and Garrett Counties.

MOTOR VEHICLES.¹

PART I.
General Provisions—Applicability.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 171. 1912, sec. 133. 1916, ch. 687. 1918, ch. 85, sec. 133. 1929, ch. 319,

sec. 171.

145. The provisions of this sub-title are intended to be State-wide in
their effect, and no city, county or other municipal sub-division of the State
shall have the right to make or enforce any local ordinance or regulation
which shall change, alter or affect the speed limits prescribed by this sub-
title, require any registration or licensing of motor vehicles or operators
thereof in addition to the registration and licensing herein prescribed, or
impose upon the owner or operator of any motor vehicle any tax, regis-
tration fee, license fee, assessment or charge of any kind for the use of a
motor vehicle upon any public highway or highways of this State, pro-
vided that incorporated cities, towns, counties, special taxing areas and
other municipal sub-divisions within the State may prescribe and enforce
reasonable traffic regulations by fine or imprisonment, either or both in the
discretion of the Court, applicable to all vehicular traffic, motor vehicles
included, provided such regulations do not involve any charge of any kind
for the use of their highways, other than reasonable charges for the park-

¹ In view of frequent changes in the motor vehicle law, care should be exercised to
ascertain whether decisions deal with statute as it now stands.